Mathew,
I have not used the GUI tools to do this but I know the CLI tools work
just fine. Here is a how to I wrote to resize LVM and an EXT3
filesystem ontop.
http://www.sdmachelp.com/linuxlvm.html
David Miller.
On Jan 18, 2008, at 11:52 AM, Matthew Rich wrote:
Hi all,
I just installed a pair of drives into one of my machines (RHEL5.1)
and want to grow the logical volume that hosts the root filesystem
so that it uses all of the space on the two drives. (Yes, I'm aware
it's not a good idea to have the entire filesystem live in one
single logical volume. However, repartitioning the server is not
really worth doing since this is just an auxiliary web server that
runs a few non-critical web apps. I just don't want to have to
rebuild the thing.)
I have fdisk'd the drives and vgextended the VolGroup00 volume group
so that when I do a vgdisplay I see that VolGroup00 is indeed using
all the space -- about 340GB. However, when I look at the size of
the root filesystem with df, it's still only using the 65GB from the
original disk. So, obviously, I need to grow the filesystem so that
it takes up the entire logical volume.
Thing is, I'm paranoid about doing this. I've backed up the entire
filesystem and now have the system-config-lvm GUI app open in front
of me. I've found the "edit properties" screen for the logical
volume where I can simply click the "use remaining" button and it
*looks* like it will automatically grow the filesystem (which is
ext3) to the full size. Before I click "OK" here, I just wanted to
ask the list -- will this work? Will this tool be able to
automatically grow the root filesystem without having to unmount it
first?
Thanks,
Matthew
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Matthew Rich
Senior Web Application Developer
Northwestern University
School of Education and Social Policy
Annenberg Hall, Room 249
+1 847 467 2819
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